2 Quotes & Sayings By Anne Burack Sayre
Anne Burack Sayre was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1887. Her father was a prominent architect and her mother an accomplished musician. At an early age she showed an interest in the arts and took up the violin at age twelve. After graduating from the Westtown School for Girls in 1909, she attended Vassar College but left to marry fellow student Walter Sayre in 1911
They moved to New York where Anne wrote for various magazines and worked as a secretary at Doubleday & McClure. She came to know Arnold Toynbee, who encouraged her work as a writer. She published her first novel, The Land of Faraway (1914), was awarded the Henry James Fellowship, and published her second novel, A Daughter of Eve (1915).
The book became popular with women readers but was criticized by intellectuals for its realistic treatment of women's lives. Her third novel, The Lighted Way (1915), followed. She divorced Walter in 1916 and married novelist Herbert George Duncumb in 1917.
They separated after two years and Anne married lawyer William Paley in 1921. During this period she wrote children's stories under the name Barbara Burckardt (1921) and collaborated with Isabel Paterson on The Way Out (1924).